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Believe me, I have zero concerns about this situation and we have to look forward and prepare well our games. Nothing more

Marco Silva - Everton manager

But Silva says he will not let the issue distract him from his job at Goodison Park ahead of tomorrow’s clash with West Ham.

“I understand your question about the situation but it is something not for me to think about,” he said. “My focus is in my work, my club as well. Nothing more.

“OK you can put all the scenarios but it is not for us to talk about the situation. Believe me, I have zero concerns about this situation and we have to look forward and prepare well our games. Nothing more.”

Asked if he had nothing to hide, the club’s press officer interrupted to state that Silva could not say anything further on the matter.

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Everton meet a West Ham side who are bottom of the table and still without a point but manager Manuel Pellegrini has told his players to “trust” his attacking philosophy because he has been winning for 35 years.

The former Real Madrid and Manchester City coach will bid to avoid becoming the first Hammers manager to lose the first five league matches of the season.

He said: “Everyone is disappointed here – me, the players, the owners, the fans, everyone.

“But also they must understand they must trust in what we are doing because it is not an experiment we are doing here. It is a way to grow that we have done before a lot of times so me, I will not change.

“Do I ever doubt my methods? No. I always trust in what I do because I have 35 years in this.

“I don’t think that because you lose four games you must not be confident. In this moment I trust more than ever what I do because it’s not the first time that I am doing this work, not the first time in my career that we have bad results, every club has bad results in one moment of the season.”